Slop.

tfw you realize that "this massive continent only has one language" is a belief that directly results from imperialism wiping out the hundreds of other languages that used to be in North America.

Sometimes people will try to point to the Chinese adoption of Mandarin as an official lingua franca as some kind of equivalent form of colonialism, and it's just not.

there's like 56 ethnic groups in China and that's just the ones officially recognized. americans really do be living in a monoculture

Every language has accents, dialogs, and so on. Even sign language (and they still won't know not everything is American Sign Language. There's British, French, Japanese, etc.) has accents. I'm struggling to think of a language that doesn't. Maybe Basque? Really it's a question of geography and time. You drop a canyon in the middle of Rhode Island, wait 1,000 years, and the people on either side won't be able to understand one another.

bud, in southern China you can travel between neighbouring cities their dialects would not be mutually intelligible with Mandarin or even each other

the distance between Cantonese and Mandarin is wider than spanish and italian

and thats not even talking about non-chinese langauges like Mongolian and Uyghur or whatever

There are already different American accents based on where in America you are, this is what happens when the us mass media depicts an entire country as a non human other.

Sometimes Americans are too stupid for words.
I honestly don’t even know what to say.

Just wait until they find out there's 21 recognized official languages in India.

Honestly surprising levels of ignorance, given how Chinese-American restaurants will have several different styles on display. Just based on that and two popular languages in both Mandarin and Cantonese...

But then until recently I didn't know shit about Greenland.

It’s such a shame that China is always depicted as this nebulous monolith, even though it has such a rich history and diverse culture.

One dumb girl does not make everyone an ingnoramus.

Every response I’ve seen to an American on that platform is far, far too kind

Next you're tell me these people eat different kinds of food outside rice?!

Wait until they discover England, where accents can vary depending on what part of the city you're from.

china is big with multiple ethnicities just like nigeria or south africa.